5 OKR examples for It Teams
Formulating strong OKRs can be a complex endeavor, particularly for first-timers. Prioritizing outcomes over projects is crucial when developing your plans.
We've tailored a list of OKRs examples for It Teams to help you. You can look at any of the templates below to get some inspiration for your own goals.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read more about the OKR meaning online.
Best practices for OKR
Your objectives should be ambitious, but achievable. Your key results should be measurable and time-bound. It can also be helfpul to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Building your own OKRs with AI
While we have some examples below, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. There are 2 options available to you.
- Use our free OKRs generator
- Use Tability, a complete platform to set and track OKRs and initiatives – including a GPT-4 powered goal generator
How to track OKRs
Your quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly in order to get all the benefits of the OKRs framework.
Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKRs-tracking platform to make things easier.
We recommend Tability for an easy way to set and track OKRs with your team.
Check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
It Teams OKRs templates
You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results for It Teams.
OKRs to improve incident management
Build an amazing incident management process
Reduce the number of regressions by 60%- Increase the size of the incident response team from 2 to 6 people
- Reduce the MTTR from 3h to 60 minutes
OKRs to increase security awareness
- Make security part of our culture
- Roll out fleet management pilot to 30% of the company
- 2FA is used on all 3rd party services used by employees
- 100% of our employees have gone through security training
OKRs to improve developer experience by improvign dev speed
- Provide amazing Developer Experience (DX) by improving dev speed
- 90% of products have a standardized Continuous Delivery pipeline
- Reduce average build time from 20 minutes to 2 minutes
- Reduce release cycle time from 12 days to 3 days
OKRs to improve the Disaster Recover process
- Have a world class DR process
- Increase the number of DR tests from 1 to 3 per quarter
- Reduce recovery period from 24h to 12h
- Reduce recovery point objective from 12 business hours to 4 business hours
OKRs to enhance application security knowledge and awareness among teams
- Improve application security knowledge and awareness
- Increase the frequency of security checklist reviews by 50%
- Conduct at least one security training session per team
- Provide secure coding guidelines and best practices to each team
- Implement a mandatory security certification program for all teams
More OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
- OKRs to enhance knowledge on marketing and branding for B2B SaaS product optimization
- OKRs to improve project delivery margins while keeping existing customers happy
- OKRs to increase player base by 20%
- OKRs to enhance skillset of 40% of the teams
- OKRs to boost website conversion rate
- OKRs to develop a comprehensive understanding of user requirements for secure document backup
OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: Complete 2024 OKR cheat sheet
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples